Eeva-Liisa Manner

Manner wrote over fifteen original collections of poems, plays for theater and radio, novels and short prose.

She translated widely in both contemporary and classic literature, including names like William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Hermann Hesse, and Franz Kafka.

Translation of Manner's Selected Poems in English was published in 1997, and the novel Girl on Heaven's Pier in 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press.

I was seventeen when the Russian planes started bombarding my home town of Wiborg on 30 November 1939, damaging it badly.

At armistice, Wiborg had to be yielded, it remained behind the border – an endless source of nostalgia for one who had a catlike, persevering fondness for homestead.